I've always loved the way the Leica LTM's looked. They are unashamedly machines. They are tiny compared with modern SLRs and even the M. Much as I love M cameras, they are not nearly so interesting to look at, plain bricks compared with the sculpted surfaces of the LTM.

Isn't it fun to buy brand-new accessories for a 50 year-old camera?

Up top is the Voightlander VC meter with its distinctly non-1950's LEDs (Photo.net review) i got through Rich Pinto's Place for everyday use. The camera actually came with the selenium Leica Meter 3, the latter is accurate outdoors but indoors isn't sensitive enough. (BTW, I am not surprised, I have an selenium MC meter and a the selenium meter on my Rolleiflex 2.8F are both accurate outdoors.)

Down bottom is the Barnack Winder from Tom Abrahamsson One-Off Industrial Designs http://www.rapidwinder.com/ It is super-smooth on the IIIf, somehow seems better even than my other M rapidwinders or MP Leicavit. One of the joys of the LTMs is watching all the knobs and dials spinning every which way when you advance the film. Even before I got the Barnack Winder, I found that advancing the film using the knob wasn't as bad or slow as you'd think.

Another shot of the IIIf, showing a natty wrist strap. The small proportions of these cameras make it really feasible to use a wrist strap and these are from Artisan and Artist. As I saw them in Rich's store I knew I had to have one.

The thing on the left is the lens hood for the Summitar. We'll pop that open in a moment. It's so cool!

I have this thing for collapsible lenses (and folding cameras). With the Summitar collapsed, the whole camera is less than 2-1/2 inches thick.

Here's the hood unfurled and the lens extended. That is some hood! I love the crinkle finish of the mounting ring.

Another view, showing cutouts for the rangefinder.

Camera: Kodak DX6340 PS digital
Film: Compact Flash card little thingie
Misc: The GIMP / Fedora 1 Linux was used for all image manipulation